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TELEGRAPH.

MONDAY,

SEPTEMBER 16, 1935.

NOTES OF THE DAY

U.S. NEUTRALITY

It is

Tanger

SHOULD BRITAIN EVACUATE

HER MEDITERRANEAN BASES?

Madrid

PAI

POLAND

RUS

HUNGARY

cturin

FRANCE

RUMANIA

JUGO SLAVIA

Sardinia

SIBRALTAR

MEDITERRA

TRENCH TERRITORY

Miles

C

ITALIAR LIBYA

WILGARIA

TURKEY

入口

EGYP

¡PHENCH

Such powerful and represènin- tive newspaper as the New York Timea and Christian Science Monis ter, notably anti-war in policy, havë commented with something of dia. approval upon the recently formu- | lated Neutrality Bill which Con greas rushed through before its recent adjournment. Others, too, uf America, Inside and outside have the feeling that America can serve her own had world interest best, not by a continuing policy of aloofness in times of crisis but by Retive intervention in support of such safeguards to peace as the League of Nations. "It cannot be sait too often," saya the Chritian Science Monitor, "that isolation- Indert, neutrality is not enough. it is not the best and mat effective:

It is delt way to real neutrality. sive. The first and best step to- wards neutrality is to assist in seeing that there is no war.“ pointed out that there

are two stages in the preservation of Ameri- ca neutrality, and that isulation is the second and more desperate staste. As far as the first, and #t peace-preserving stage

the aggressor, Bat 2 least in the present Italo-Ethiopian

TF ever, by the malignity of fate United centroversy. the

or the folly of its leaders, they such guardians now--or are policy of non-intervention, or lat

Britain has to wage another war, they were collecting points for the the most, friendly advice against it will be a war of aeroplanes and shipping victims of enemy air- aggression, may not be entirely submarines. The perfection of craft? We have normally in the miss. The Pact of Paris has the bomber, and the aerial-tor Mediterranenn the First Tattle HOWLS & HOWLERS been called to the attention of the peda, has changed the whole face | Squadron, of battleships and a

ron, of cruisers and a flagship; More Scraps From Eddie's nations by the State Department of both strategy and tacties. It flagship: the First Cruiser Squad- The the Third Cruiser Squndrom, of 3 lighting three and the pledges given under the has altered the relative value of terms of the Kellogg-Briand Pact Boating Navy is to-day vulnerable cruisers and a flagship; three have heen resurrected. As a as it was never before vulnerable flotillas of destroyers, each com- nation without territory in Africa in history. This dominant truth is prising 9 destroyers, with a depot a Captain's ship and without any great commercialvions to the most technically ship and a repair ship; eight sub-

ignorant civilian. 11

is freely marines, with BRITAIN ON THE

interests in Europe, America inmitted by such naval experts us and a depot ship; a minc-sweeper VET a further selection of Barry Doni- reserve of nine ships and one mine- "howlers" from a teacher's this instance may have done as Vice-Admiral Sir

sea collection:- UP-GRADE

much as could be expected of her. ville. Sir Barry, who in his ex-layer.

A metaphor is a thing you Convincing evidence of Bri-She has done as much as Japan, for port capacity attended all the im- with its narrow western and still

Ive thus bottled up 4 battleships, shout through. Peare. making of the Inst

Polonius was a mythical sau- tain's industrial recovery is to instance. But, if peace preserviertant anval conferences at the narrower south-easterly outlet we become in after, said frankly in recent 6 erizers, 27 destroyers, 8 sub- be found in the recent ligures tion efforts ultimately

shift the murines, 9 minesweepers and an age.

Barbarians are things put showing [11 increase during effective in this, or any other, con- lecture: "We cannot

**11 auxiliaries. We are not a web jinto bicycles to make them run August of a quarter of a million diet, what does America sífer in the land, so we must remove our bases pireraft carrier--a total of 55, plus

Turther back from enemy shores."

smoothly. people in work and a drop of way of an impediment to aggrese envisaged an English Channel come or a well-loved Power in the

A ghost is an invisible object dominated by enemy aircraft, with Mediterranean, nearly two hundred thousand in sion Neutrality,

great southern ports, like whose home territories frost or which can only be seen at night. London, rendered useless. "Simi-abut upon its waters have had to lar remarks," he said, "apply to tolerate the many generations of aiment because the negroes in it

Britain's veral bases and chief introeste in the Mediterinem could be bombed by we enemy within six kuadred miles, the distance i akowo by the circles. Experts hold that modern, aiveraft could reuder such bases uutenhle,

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The

Hongkong Telegraph.

MONDAY, SEPT. 16, 1935,

worth

limits of the insurance system as

NOT ENOUGH

1003.

States

We think that is not enough. all very well to avoid taking

It

sides at this stage of a crisis, when

frontiers to-

the

the

BY COLIN BROOKS.

against

arms.

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Benci

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In

that land-locked

Other Powers

as a val

any other part of the Empire supremacy there within reach of land-based foreign Power. They have not liked it. aircraft."

In

The Very Idea!

Book Of Scraps

"Kodie" Edited It ·

Africa is called the Dark Con-

are black.

Budda is worshipped chiefly in Buda Pest.

Queen Mary had all the Protest- ants put to the steak.

The Menai Straits are crossed by tubercular bridge.

The chief eeupation of the

The Minister of War is the

ches.

Restoration.

Bacchus is the god of the book- makers,

A piece of elastic used for keep-

H

The poll tax was a tax on par-

the

number of unemployed." These figures show a progres- sive rise, a striking fuct being that since the beginning of the year there has been a drop of

these fortunate islands we no fewer than 377,000 in the it has not developed beyond a Twelve years ago, before air have come to regard as a perfectly had reached its present natural thing our ownership of total of the unemployed. Con-threatening stage, when there has craft fidence is obviously returning, not yet been conflict and when the Patrick, late Commander of the. We have come to take for deadly perfection Major-General Gibraltar. Spain cannot so regard the figures making it clear that League has not been faced with US Army Air Corps, stated after granted war ownership and use of inhabitants of Perth is dying.

under proper Malta. the revival is proceeding the real necessity of deciding for trials that:

France and tidy cannot steadily, all the time. In issu-or against sanctions. But suppose conditions, we can put out of coun-1so

take it for granted. Even clergyman why preaches to the ing these returns, the Ministry some nation were to send troops mission, or sink, any naval craftCyprus-that "latest little baby soldiers when they are in the tren- that floats." In the same report which Disraeli added to the Em. Charles H. told the people they another's across of Labour accompanies them

the Joint Board of the United pire-ws an addition to British The world's peace ma-States which had carried out the territory grudged by the rest of could drink and gamble and do.as with analyses which link them arrow. with the social services and chinery would be moving then at trials reported that in its mem- Europa. Our African possessions they liked. This was called the with the country's general con- top speed and desperately striving, hers' opinion it was difficult, if not have long filled jealous eyes. If dition. In this connection, the to overtake a situation fast grow-inpossible, to haik any type of a new war were to open with, the iny out of band, The Article of aval craft of sufficient strength to mihilation, or virtual annihila- withstand the destructive force of tion, by air and under-water at BCCDDBDSC000283000650 | perrentages are now tolerab the League Covenant concerning the largest boule that aeroplanes fuck, of our land and sea forces in 188 our stocking up is called-

constant and they are

guitar. shore bases or the Mediterranean the effect of

Nom de pleme is another name noting because they outline the sanctions would almost certainly be can carry from

invoked. From what we know of sheltered harbours. In his recent such a catastrophe on both mate for a bunch of feathers. problems with which the 'Gov-

rial and moral would be stagger- book, "Our Future in the Air, France, their policles, Britain,

A dirge is a song a man sings erament is called upon to deal. Rassin and the majority of the forces these expert opinions by

Brigadier General Groves

rein-ling. As Vice-Admiral. Demyille, when he is dead.

once himself Chief of Staff in those

A person who walks in his sleep I was shown in the June minor powers in Europe, all men collection of striking facts. He waters, has said-We cannot shift is called in evangelist. figures, for instance, that almost|bers of the League, would support tells of how the "unsinkable ship" the land. But while our forces Certain areas of Egypt are cul- half of the registered unemploy- those sanctions, providing the the German Ostfriesland-was depend on those land bases they tivated by irritation. ed are drawing insurance hene-aggression on the part of a war sunk by four bumbs. He recalls are at hazard. The narrow neck! Queen Victorin was the longest Filk state were obvious. These that during the war a submarine, at Gibraltar rendered impassable fit, a figure which, as a Home nations, members of the League, 60 feet below the surface, was sunk by the hornets in the air and the queen on the throne. paper points out, reveals the would expend their blood and money by a bomb wrighing no more than steel death-dealing ships below rots.

for a principle. They would rise 300th, that detonated 975 feetwater, Malta incessantly hombed.

The Romans breathlessly watch- in defence of a theory for which away from her hall. He em-the area round Port Said and the a bulwark against the economic we have to thank America's late phasises the deadly menace to the entrance to the Suez cluttered with ed the fight of the gladiolas in the

al-President Woodrow Wilson very navy's utility of the aerial smoke- | submarines that is the picture blizzard. Unemployment lowances, the term which has largely. And while these powers curtain. The conclusion to which which would be in the minds of

Fashion now replaced transitional bene. were making this sacrifice America one is forced is that what were the war lords of any enemy.

would be barricading herself behind once safe harbourages are NOW

He-"Good gracious! What's fit, cover more than a third of neutrality legislation. If America death

for shipping. If We think to-day of 000 miles happened? the total number of cases, and has any faith in the League prin foreign aircraft can render unters effective bombing range.

Why have you got that plaster (about 14 per cent. lie outside the ciple, in the scheme of collective I able the bases of our teel, if our may not long remain so.

over your left eye?" new social services and depend Security, she should actively surow waters and sea basins within

She "Plaster? That is my ean never bombing distance of hostile shorespirit of port it. The League on Public Assistance. So much operate with assurance of success are now to be death traps for the are prepared to fly to their own new hat!" for the nature of the aid given. until its membership is universal, vessels that use them, what is deaths that they may compass the Looking at the other side of the any more than the United States of Britain's position in the Mediter 1 destruction of their enemy's pos-

America could operate successfully mean?

sessions, places like the Mediter case, the period for which the if Washington had to deal with a

ranean exit of the Suez Canal are Jable. Melbourne church some- names have been borne on the number of states which refused to

The Mediterranean has long been vulnerable.

Nobody without the closest what late for her wedding, states books, it is satisfactory to find recognise the federal laws and to

obey them. The League's ultimate of. suprême importance to us be!

technical knowledge and experience Reuter, that the great majority of cases purpose, unless we are much astray cause we have been as much an

She made her way to the altar only need temporary support, is to act as a world police force. Asiatic as European Power, Since dare dogmatise on such a prob Two-thirds of the unemployed making the complete disarmament the Suez Canal became our high-lem, but any one with the interests with unhurrying grace, and took of nations possible. In this fashion way to the Near and Far East, of his country at heart must ask the hand of the waiting bride- have been registered for less wars can best be avoided, for with the possession of Malta, of Cyprus Is our standing in the Mediter- than six months. Nearly a half out weapons no nation can be dan- and of Gibraltar-which long made raneun for less than six weeks. To all gerous. But the League needs the of these the extension of re-support, and not just the sympathy, In this of every major power. covery gives good grounds of light, those who refuse Accept

Geneva hope. But 23

or responsibilities at per cent. roughly 450,000, have been un-shirking their duly or lacking in

United perception. The

States- employed for over a year, and Neutrality Bill may be a safe

women guard in that second "desperate" these are the men and whose lot is a challenge to the stage of crisis, but it is also de- social reformer. It is here, in cidedly selfish in the eyes of League fact, that we find the problem

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•

Wrong Groom

A bride arrived at a fashion-

tenable 7 Hus the old mom as the service began.

pur Portuguese alliance of value. certitude that we dare not with-Then she stole a shy glance at because Lisbon in the old days was draw from the Mediterranean him, stared, dropped his hand. a necessary part of call-have been given place to reasonable doubt and screamed. He was vital to us, These have been our whether we can afford as a naval wrong bridegroom I Mediterranean basus. They have Power to remain there in the face

of the Past of the new arms? guarded the gaten

BREMEN INCIDENT · [nsibility in maintaining relations between the United States and other countries and that he should indulgo In expressions offensive to another Government."

CORDELL HULL AND JUDGE BRODSKY'S SPEECH

Mr. Cordell

the

The bride had arrived so late. that the clergyman had started another wedding.

Chivalry

A recent article is a remin der of that modern youth, who He said that Judge Brodsky's re- sat with closed eye and an ag Washington, Sept, 14. marks were not relevant to the grieved expression in a crowded ? of its worst fentures is that men presents itself. Generally speak- who have, been so long out of ing, courage may be taken from

Hull apoliglaed legitimate part of the judicial de tram.

eislon. However it was pointad "Are you not well?" he was employment are losing their the latest figures, which certain orally to the German Charge out that municipal oficials are not asked. morale and will consequentlyly do show that Britain is D'Affaires, Herr Rudolf Leitner, part of the Federal Goverment and "I'm all right, thanks,” he re- must it extremely difficult to get gradually making up lost ground for Judge Brodsky's remarks. He he also drew attention to freedom plied, "but I can't bear to see and appears to have definitely said that, "it is regretted that an of speech is being a fundamental

{ladies standing.' back into stride again, even

'offelal had so little sense of rex-|American right.-United Press. when the opportunity of work' turned the corner.